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Page 40
... words are , their freshness comes from the il- lusion that we hear an actual girl expressing actual grief . The words are those we might expect to break from her lips . How well Landor has chosen them and set them in place may be seen ...
... words are , their freshness comes from the il- lusion that we hear an actual girl expressing actual grief . The words are those we might expect to break from her lips . How well Landor has chosen them and set them in place may be seen ...
Page 52
... word order in these two sentences , containing the same words but in different arrangements : " Zeus struck Sophocles dead , " " Sophocles struck Zeus dead . " This inflexibility was not true of Latin , in which a poet could lay down his ...
... word order in these two sentences , containing the same words but in different arrangements : " Zeus struck Sophocles dead , " " Sophocles struck Zeus dead . " This inflexibility was not true of Latin , in which a poet could lay down his ...
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... words also con- tribute to the buzz . ) --- --- Evidently the sounds of words can have a close bond to their denotation , but it is a mistake to expect such a relationship to occur regularly . While it is true that the consonant sound ...
... words also con- tribute to the buzz . ) --- --- Evidently the sounds of words can have a close bond to their denotation , but it is a mistake to expect such a relationship to occur regularly . While it is true that the consonant sound ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats